Air Force medical providers, engineers, and support staff worked with Mongolian and Sri Lanken military personnel this month during the fourth annual Pacific Angel exercise. This initiative is meant to cultivate bonds and foster goodwill between US and Asia-Pacific countries through capacity-building in the realm of humanitarian assistance. This was the first year that Pacific Angel took place in Mongolia. In total, 130 military participants, along with aid workers and interpreters, provided health screenings and veterinary assistance and carried out engineering projects in the remote villages of Delgerkhaan, Jargaltkhaan, and Tsenkermandal and in Ondorkhaan city in Hentii province during the July 13-24 event. Thirteenth Air Force at JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, plans and executes Pacific Angel. (Tsenkermandal report by Lt. Col. Tracey Saiki)
Special-ops aviators, a physicist from the intelligence community, and an enlisted Marine with decades of deployments: U.S. Space Command’s military and civilian leaders who spoke May 7 were as likely to come from strictly space backgrounds as not. These are some of the day’s insights from inside the command, which…